Child issuingfrom us both — showingour ideal, the way — to ours! fatherand mother whobleakly liveon as two extremes —wrongly linked in himand separated— from this comes his death — annihi-lating this self of a child.

A Second Death

no — notmixed up with the great dead — etc.— as long as we ourselvesgo on living, helives — in us—it is only after ourdeath that he will be in us— and the bellsof the dead will not toll for him

Mouth Whispering in Death

Oh! leaveus in the graveyardfather— and let us utter whatthe two of us already know mystery

Cobalt Oblivion

Setting sunand wind now vanished, andwind of nothing that blows(here, the nothingness ? the modern)

A Mouth Whispering In Death

death — whispers in low tones— I am no one — I am not even aware of myself(because the dead do not know that they aredead —, nor that theyare dying

Of Grass and Bone

no more life for ─me and I senseI am in the tombnext to you

If the Universe Could Speak

slow to the sacrifice earth relinquishes himat their time

other mother (mother is speechless?)

silent and eternal anguish.

Trance at Noon

Oh! The eyes of the deadetc.have more powerthan the eyesof the living

they will lure you in.

Earth Shrine

III

the earth speaks mother is mistakenfor the earthditch dug by the child — where she will be later — — —